First up we had Otto Virta who had bravely risen from his sick bed to come and tell us all about how to use the power of HTML 5 to be able to build apps quickly. Slides are online here

Next up was Elias Pietila, who could not quite manage to drop Wooden Labyrinth 3D from his talk ;).
He told us about how brands need to ensure they are engaging with their users and fans. Slides are here

After the break, Hanna told us about MWC 2012, and gave us some tips on how to survive and thrive there. Presentation from here

And to round off the tlaks part of the day we had Stephen Sykes telling us about the technical details of memory management on iOS. Slides from here

So, with MWC (Mobile World Congress) happening this week, and nothing orgnaised so far, I decided to reserve Aalto Venture Garage for Saturday March 17th.
This is a week later than we normally hold MDC, but I wanted to give some of the folks I asked to help out chance to respond!

So, in case you did not realise, the organising team has shrunk to just me.

There seems to be some interest in doing it this year, so lets see what can happen with short notice.
Drop me a note (email, comment here or twitter) if you are interested in helping out (either via sponsorship or getting this to be an awesome event)

The core ideas are; to have fun, learn new stuff, meet new people.
Oh, and if you build something that changes the world, that’s a bonus
😉

There will be a “warm-up” event earlier in the week to help teams (designers, developers, product owners etc) form up. The idea being that the team can get some actual productive stuff done on Friday evening rather than spending the whole evening match-making.
This means the team has from Friday early evening/late afternoon until Sunday to work together on their project.

On Saturday afternoon we will have some lightning talks, so that people are encouraged to look up from their screens and then on Sunday afternoon, short demos from the teams. As always, it’s more about what you have achieved, than looking at final products.

So, a number of folks have talked to us about setting up a more “hacking” or “doing” type event, and this time of year seems appropriate.
Doing something exactly 6 months after MDC would put it in August (still Holiday season), so we have slid it a bit later in the year.

There are a couple of details waiting to drop into place, and then we will announce the event.
Standby fro more information (hopefully by the end of the week!)

There are also some videos on bambuser but be warned, the audio is not that great, and there were quite a lot of battery problems early on in the day (Note to self, always have a full battery before streaming stuff!)
If anyone has better quality videos or other media, then please put your links in the comments.

P.S. I know not all the presentations are on here yet, but as we get links we will add them to this post (and tweet about it!).